Exceptional storytellers have added a unique dimension to our programs. Month after month, Barry Stewart Mann sent us one of his beautifully crafted stories; and each month Shelley Fraser Mickle told one of her incomparable stories rooted in her Southern childhood. Along the way we also heard from Boston’s famed storyteller, the late Brother Blue, and from the Wampanoag’s Princess Red Wing, a direct descendant of King Philip, who met the Pilgrims and helped them through their first winter.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lies.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/15/2000 Lies Transcript There is no documented evidence on when we, as a species, first discovered that we can lie. When I think back, it seems to me I came up with my first whopper when I was four. By four, you have […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mosquitoes.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 8/1/2000 Mosquitos Transcript This is National Mosquito Week, which I don’t think means that we are supposed to stop work and take time to honor the mosquito so much as to stop work and realize that if we aren’t being bitten by one, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hot-Dogs.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 7/25/2000 Hot Dogs Transcript I can’t remember the first time I ate a hot dog. But I can remember the first time a hot dog slipped out of its bun while I was eating it. I was five, and the mustard ruined my […]
Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about one of the by-products of summer for children: boredom.
Here’s a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for that yearly miracle – the last day of school.
Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about that most summery of inventions: ice cream.
